Best Director of a 2004 Film

Nominees for the Fifth Annual Cosmique Movie Awards

The Best Director candidates are not selected by nominations from Cosmo voters. Instead, they are selected through a formula that considers their nominations and wins at the major movie awards (Golden Globes, BAFTAs, Directors Guild of America, and the Oscars) as well as the number of nominations their film received at the Cosmos. The Cosmo nominees are weighted to better emphasize categories over which the director has the greatest influence, to somewhat reduce the influence of niche categories, and to add a penalty for negative nominations.

Winner:

Martin Scorsese - The Aviator

Other Nominees:

Zach Braff - Garden State		Clint Eastwood - Million Dollar Baby		Michel Gondry - Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Mike Nichols - Closer			Alexander Payne - Sideways